Category: Politics
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Peterloo film review ****
Peterloo, 2nd November 2018 I doubt that there has ever been a more carefully researched, painstakingly assembled or more vividly imagined “history” film than Peterloo. If you like Mike Leigh (I do) you are going to love this. If you like British social, economic and political history (I do) you…
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Pinter at the Pinter One review ****
Pinter at the Pinter One Harold Pinter Theatre, 18th October Press Conference Precisely The New World Order Mountain Language American Football The Pres and an Officer Death One for the Road Ashes to Ashes Just so you are clear. These are plays by Harold Pinter. Did I mention that? A…
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The Jungle at the Playhouse Theatre review *****
The Jungle Playhouse Theatre, 4th October 2018 So this was my second attempt to see The Jungle. I had to bail out of the first halfway through as my back wasn’t up to squatting on the floor of the Young Vic. This is not a complaint. Given the subject it…
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The Village at Theatre Royal Stratford East review ****
The Village Theatre Royal Stratford East, 27th September 2018 One of the many advantages of the idle life of culture is the opportunity to savour the coincidences that it routinely throws up. I see a play, Losing Venice, about the end of Empire, written in a style which apes the…
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An Adventure at the Bush Theatre review ****
An Adventure Bush Theatre, 26th September 2018 Now I cannot pretend that, when the lovely people at the Bush moved the matinee performance of An Adventure that I attended forward by an hour, and indicated it had metamorphosed into a three hour plus extravaganza, I wasn’t concerned. And reading the…
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Blackkklansman film review ****
Blackkklansman, 30th August 2018 Spike Lee is 61 years old. This photo is a few years old but there is still a twinkle in his eye if you ask me. That twinkle, the eye for mischief, has been in his films from the start. Now I can’t pretend that I…
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The Lieutenant of Inishmore at the Noel Coward Theatre review *****
The Lieutenant of Inishmore Noel Coward Theatre, 31st August 2018 My regular reader, (hello), will need no reminding, (OK maybe they will), that I am a massive fan of Mr Martin McDonagh. Hangmen is the best new play I have seen in the last 3 years, indeed one of the…
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Imperium at the Gielgud Theatre review ****
Imperium I Conspirator and Imperium II Dictator Gielgud Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, 18th July and 25th August 2018 I don’t read much. Don’t have the patience or the imagination. Much easier to get my kicks from the theatre, or from film, where other people can do all the hard work.…
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